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1) Dune
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
"Science fiction's supreme masterpiece, Dune will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, it is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who will become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. Paul's noble family is named stewards of Arrakis, whose sands are the only source of a powerful drug called "the spice." After his family is brought down in a traitorous plot, Paul must go undercover to seek revenge, and...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When the Imperial prison barge Purge breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But soon after a boarding party returns from a scavenging expedition, a horrific disease breaks out and takes the lives of all but a half-dozen survivors whose only option forces them to return to the Star Destroyer--and the soulless, unstoppable dead waiting...
Author
Series
Gateway volume 1
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Amelia's parents decide to reopen a creepy old hotel, Amelia and her new friend Charlie quickly discover that the place is much more than it seems. The Gateway is no ordinary hotel - and its guests aren't just visiting from other cities and towns!
Author
Series
The gateway volume 2
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Gateway Hotel is open for business, and Amelia and Charlie are awaiting their newest intergalactic arrivals, the fearsome Warriors of Brin-Hask. But the kids soon discover that the Brin-Hask aren't their only new guests. A plague of rats has infested the hotel's kitchen, but these are no ordinary rats ...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away--no climate change, no war, no Twitter--beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Critically acclaimed, bestselling authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith set out to write the essential guide to a glorious future of space settlements, but after years of research, they aren't so sure it's a good idea. Space technologies and space business are progressing...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The rules are simple: You must be gifted. You must be younger than twenty-five. You must be willing to accept the dangers that you will face if you win. Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Gupta's entire life has been leading up to this -- the opportunity to travel to space. But to secure a spot on this classified mission, she must first compete against the best and brightest people on the planet. People who are as determined as she to win a place on a journey...
Author
Series
The gateway volume 3
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"It's a dark and stormy night at the Gateway Hotel. And of course, the latest intergalactic visitor is the most terrifying yet. But who is he, and what does he want? With their families and the hotel in grave danger, it's up to Amelia and Charlie to save the day ..."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
The gateway volume 4
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When an ancient starship is been discovered in the Egyptian desert, Amelia's dad is whisked away to help. Meanwhile, the first human guests have arrived at the hotel - and they're turning out to be the strangest visitors yet. Are the spaceship and the odd guests connected? Amelia and Charlie may be the only ones who can solve this puzzle ...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Sylvestri Yarrow is on a streak of bad luck with no end of sight. She's been doing her best to keep the family cargo business going after her mom's death, but between mounting debt and increasing attacks by the Nihil on unsuspecting ships, Syl is in danger of losing all she has left of her mother. She heads to the galactic capital of Coruscant for help, but gets sidetracked when she's drawn into a squabble between two of the Republic's most powerful...
13) The time shifter
Author
Series
The gateway volume 5
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Amelia and Charlie get caught in a time loop at the Gateway Hotel, they are forced to live the same day over and over. Each loop brings them closer to catching a suspicious alien visitor--but also closer to danger. Can they stop time to save their lives?
14) The dark giants
Author
Series
The gateway volume 6
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When some unauthorized visitors arrive through the gateway, chaos breaks loose-- and threatens to spoil Amelia's birthday! What are the visitors looking for, and can she and Charlie stop them before it's too late?
Author
Series
Fractalverse volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 47
Language
English
Description
A space voyager living her dream of exploring new worlds lands on a distant planet ripe for colonization before her discovery of a mysterious relic transforms her life and threatens the entire human race.
During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira Navárez finds an alien relic. At first delighted, her elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a...
16) Into the dark
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Long before the First Order, before the Empire, before even The Phantom Menace...Jedi lit the way for the galaxy in The High Republic. Padawan Reath Silas is being sent from the cosmopolitan galactic capital of Coruscant to the undeveloped frontier and he couldn't be less happy about it. He'd rather stay at the Jedi Temple, studying the archives. But when the ship he's traveling on is knocked out of hyperspace in a galactic-wide disaster, Reath finds...
17) Padawan
Author
Language
English
Description
Obi-Wan Kenobi has not been apprenticed long to Qui-Gon Jinn, and he is chafing at Qui-Gon's training style: all meditation, no action. Obi-Wan yearns to prove himself on a mission, but when he and Qui-Gon are finally set to leave on an assignment, Qui-Gon is nowhere to be found. Angered by his master's abandonment, Obi-Wan sets out on the mission alone, determined to prove himself. On a mysterious planet he encounters a pack of feral, Force-wielding...
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